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I Don't Know How To Kill
03:53
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The fever is turning
The sky into gasoline ablaze
And I don’t know how to kill
I don’t know how to kill
I’m walking towards the sun
And I cannot make out any faces
I will do what you will
But our fight’s over the hill
The woods are still burning
The snow is still falling a lot
The ground cannot be reached
Our tears ain’t gonna freeze
A chocolate coin if you try
To match the afterglow of the ice
Falling over a kiss
Falling all for a kiss
Can another song
Make up for every moment
Can another song
Turn your whole body into a dance
I’m trying to go straight for your heart
But the low tide is turning me away
I’m playing fast and loose with your tie
But your fading smile is turning me into a shade
I’m crawling across the colour fields
Knowing that tomorrow I will be another
I’m building a castle with my head in the sand
Knowing full well that I could have lost you forever
The fever is slowly
Fading the thunder noises away
And I don’t know how to kill
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2. |
Old
05:02
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I’m not gonna be a poet now
Cause I know it doesn’t matter now
I will try to turn your dance to screams
And your soul into a tactile spleen
I want to go slow
Take a few in a row
Here we go
I feel like I could go on all night
Fuck your mind and turn your wrongs to rights
A movie with an upsetting scene
Made you turn into a jelly bean
I’m not laughing cause you called a truce
Your upper lip shows that you drank some juice
A bunch of toys are there for you to play
Never mind the fact it’s your last day
When is it that you know
That it was just your shadow
That followed?
I’ll go back into the night
Where there’s no-one I know
I’ll be first into the fight
I know, I know
Put your face into the light
Everyone needs to know
There is hope if we stay quiet
Is it true you cannot remember
The first time you saw my eye colour
I put you upon the Ferris wheel
To feel sky and earth in-between
One more time for the show
Are you ready to bow
Very low?
I’ll go back into the night
Where there’s no-one I know
I’ll be first into the fight
I know I know
Put your face into the light
Cause everyone needs to know
There is hope if we can stay quiet
You said its too hot to go and play
Everybody was in everybody’s way
Is it too early for the first draft?
Is it too early for the first glass?
I could always see the monster in you
Rode it for fun every time I kissed you
I think it’s time we find a place
I think this time we need more space
I put you on the map forever
Now I know it was you not a fever
I’m just trying to make my way
Can I offer you to stay?
If you stay on the dance floor with me
We’ll pretend and never be free
Put your hands in my hair
We make a beautiful pair
I’ll go back into the night
where there’s no-one I know
I’ll be first into the fire
I know I know
All my faith is in your eyes
And everyone needs to know
There’s no chance that we will stay quie
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Copenhague
03:39
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Ride ride ride the feelings and the highs
Are pushing you toward the lows
Broken cars, violets and cheap cigars
A reminder that life is slow
Smoking,
You keep smoking
Breaking,
Keep on falling
Smile smile smile, your eyes fixed on my smile
Fixed on my eyes for all I know
Low grey sky memory of a time
We thought the rats left the boat
And this time you’re on my side
Not the other side of the road
If your friends wanna sit by your side
I can take my pie to go
I need a pool, a puppet made of wool
My training can finally start
To reach the stars, the only goal this far
Just be a kid, a bard, a fool
I’ll fly my kite
No one will mind
If you take my bribe
I will take your bride
Writing to stop time, writing to stop your mind
The paper takes off the load
When it left your eyes, the concealment of your mind
Every single word you wrote
Contains the memory of a time
The memory that you chose
This moment where you were mine
This moment your writing froze
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Crop Circle
04:56
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Two braided lines in your hair
The remains from yesterday
A bunch of layers picked with care
Come let’s dream the day away
A little lost to be fair
Just happy to watch you sway
Unfinished books here and there
Hoping for a windy day
Settle down, settle down
Who knows what you’ll love today
Settle down, hold your ground
Promise you won’t back away
At our feet some crisscrossed wires
That shine a light on what’s the same
On your lips another fire
Of peach and gingery flames
Settle down, settle down,
Don’t believe a word I say
Trample the grass to the ground
Make a drawing out of hay
Throw our bodies to the ground
Ignore the feverish hay
Tangled up and rolling down
The hillside towards the bay
Settle down, settle down
Settle down
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The Ballad Of PB & J
04:02
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She was born a night of thunder
On the second day of winter
From parents we all remember
But nobody knew
He had walked for the whole summer
Playing blues for bread and butter
He had paint stains on his sweater
And holes in his shoes
He was struck by lightning
Mesmerized
Every time she moved
Cupcake with blue icing
Lemonade
Was her kind of food
They played love like your play hunter
Always running from each other
Laying traps to force the other
Into making a move
She needed a love like no other
That could brave death and forever
All he needed was a mother
And something that proved
That love always wins
Even when
Nobody approves
That all you need for living
Is someone
And a bottle of booze
She was always dancing
Slowly moving
Whatever her mood
He was struck by lightning
Pulverised
Every time she moved
They parted ways without a whisper
The blue sky held on forever
They wanted to watch the world end
With somebody new
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van den Bear Brussels, Belgium
It was the story of a man that sometimes felt like a bear and then sung about it.
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